Currently watching Mebius after meaning to start on Sunday, what didn't help was me getting sick cause of food poisoning. Quick note, if your food arrives like 5 minutes after you order it, consider that it may not be top quality.

That aside, Mebius, so this is the one that takes place in the Showa Continuity compared to it's own compact little place like the previous Heisei Ultra's huh? I do enjoy that there's apparently been a lack of monster activity, so much so that GUYS gets utterly wrecked during their encounter with Dinozaur.

That being said I'm on Episode 15 and I'm really enjoying it so far, I like how Crew GUYS is mostly fresh people and not professionals like previously. It really helps me connect with them a bit faster compared to the members of DASH and Xio.

I also enjoyed the first plot with Bogar and Tsurugi, like you just get these little drops along with random monster attacks with this woman in white and then this man in black that looks like the dead captain sprinkled along with Tsurugi showing up, and you have to wonder what is even going on. And then it hits you once we get to those couple of episodes of focus which is pretty cool.

It's kind of back to regular episodic stuff but I don't really mind since they still manage to keep it interesting, and it's nice to see small cameos even if I can't appreciate them as much as people who have seen Showa Ultra before.

Continuing on with Zero's hodgepodge of direct to video specials and movies, I watched Ultraman Zero Vs. Darclops Zero. It was alright. Zero still isn't much of a character in it, but I came out even more convinced Mega Monster Battle is eventually worth my time, and heck, the plot is that there are bad guys making evil robot versions of Ultramen (and Gomora), so, what else could you want?

I also watched Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial. Even though that's not actually what it's called? Seriously I have no idea how anyone is supposed to keep track of all this stuff. That aside, Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Decisive Battle! Belial Galactic Empire (or whatever), was, in a word:

WOW

I utterly adored this one. Way more than Mega Monster Whatevertheheck. It's a much more focused and, for lack of a better word, human, film overall and that make it easier for it to connect with me. Zero still doesn't do much in the way of growing, but he's portrayed as a slightly more mellow character and a very determined hero, versus just being some jerk who we're arbitrarily meant to care about. As far as I'm concerned this movie is his real debut. The basic plot of him traveling to another world and bonding with a human to fight bad guys even matches that of most Ultra premieres.

The biggest thing that stood out to me here was definitely the visuals, though. They're gorgeous. So many insane sci-fi vistas and awesome actions shots brought to life to a level that's downright inexplicable. I mean, look at this crazy s***:

Pirates? I hope you were about to say pirates, because this movie has pirates.

The entire thing is pure eye candy from start to finish, and it really helps build up the epic space adventure feel they were going for. I mean, a movie where Ultraman assembles a misfit team of rebooted Tsuburaya heroes to stop an evil space armada? Sign me the f*** up! Watching this movie genuinely feels like going on some kind of grand quest. It's awesome and I love it. You don't even really need any context for anything going in so it's another movie like X's where I recommend it as a gateway drug. If you hate this film you probably hate fun.

Continuing on with Zero's hodgepodge of direct to video specials and movies, I watched Ultraman Zero Vs. Darclops Zero. It was alright. Zero still isn't much of a character in it, but I came out even more convinced Mega Monster Battle is eventually worth my time, and heck, the plot is that there are bad guys making evil robot versions of Ultramen (and Gomora), so, what else could you want?

I also watched Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial. Even though that's not actually what it's called? Seriously I have no idea how anyone is supposed to keep track of all this stuff. That aside, Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Decisive Battle! Belial Galactic Empire (or whatever), was, in a word:

WOW

Oh absolutely. Ultraman Zero's movie is in my opinion the best Ultraman movie ever made. Hell that visuals alone. You've gotten used to shitty CGI in Toku movies and then they pull THAT off? It was beautiful.

The Zero movie was so good. It essentially being a sci-if adventure story featuring Ultraman makes it so unique and it really helps to establish Zeto as a character. I also really love how they reimagined those old, long forgotten Tsuburaya heroes. Now if only we can get one for Redman

First post here, mostly so I have a space to yell out about how much I've been recently enjoying these shows. I watched all of Max over the course of several days, and it felt like a really good way to be accustomed to what a 'regular' show in this franchise is, before I moved on to the next season.